Airworthiness and Maintenance

This module has been designed for aviation professionals to study the role of airworthiness and maintenance management in an airline, private aircraft operator or stand lone maintenance facility, including regulatory requirements, development of Vision and Mission, stakeholder management and how airworthiness and maintenance creates revenues.

The module establishes the foundation for your understanding on how airworthiness and maintenance are managed from a strategic point of view. This module sets out the framework within which aircraft maintenance takes place, and explores how airworthiness management must drive safety, efficiency and performance. It examines the business priorities for manufacturers, aircraft owners, aircraft operators and aircraft maintenance organisations, and how these different and sometimes conflicting entities need to interact effectively and in compliance with regulatory requirements.

Who is it for?

For current maintenance employees in junior and middle management positions to study the role of maintenance in an airline or stand lone maintenance facility, regulatory requirements, development of Vision and Mission, stakeholder management and how maintenance creates revenues.

Timetable

Module teaching usually begins at 9am and finishes at 5pm each day, with time for breaks. If there is any change to these timings, you will be informed before the start of the module.

Benefits

Knowledge and understanding

• Define and discuss the roles and responsibilities of the regulators, manufacturers, owners, operators and maintenance organisations with respect to airworthiness and maintenance
• Critically analyse how an aircraft maintenance programme is created and structured
• Synthesise strategic approaches to managing the various maintenance levels: operational, scheduled and major; and identify the key deliverables from aircraft maintenance managers
• Formulate the demands and priorities of the airline operational environment, and understand the demands placed on aircraft maintenance through requirements for airline, airport and international operations
• Analyse the economics of aircraft maintenance, and how to drive efficiency and effectiveness
• Define the world of aircraft leasing, steps for the creation of a leasing contract, and the implications for delivery, maintenance and redelivery of aircraft
• Synthesise how technology is changing in aircraft, and implications for the management of maintenance operations

Skills

• Evaluate the different models for aircraft maintenance and how to determine the most appropriate for a given scenario
• Design an approach to creating an organisational safety and performance culture through maintenance management.

Values and attitudes

• Critically analyse the requirements to deliver aircraft and operational safety through all management, engineering and maintenance activities.

You will be asked to submit a reflective journal following completion of the module to illustrate your learning. You will not receive a mark for the reflective journal.

Following successful completion of the module, you will receive a certificate of participation.

This course is provided by the School of Science & Technology.

Credits

This course is worth 15 credits toward eligible programmes.

There is no prior knowledge required for this CPD module, other than a general awareness of the aviation industry practices. There is a pre-reading resource list that will help you prepare for the course.

Applicants are expected to have professional experience within the aviation industry.

English requirements

For those students whose first language is not English the following qualification is also required:

• IELTS: 6.5
• (A minimum of 6.0 in all four test components is preferable).

Aircraft Maintenance and Repair (Glencoe Aviation Technology) (Paperback) by Michael J. Kroes, Wiliam A Watkins,

Frank Delp McGraw-Hill Education; 6Rev Ed Edition (May 1993) 978-0028034591 Aviation Maintenance Management, Harry A Kinnison ISBN: 007142251X: May 2004